Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Sunoco and Chevron sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Sunoco	▲3	+16.5%
2	Chevron	-	+16.1%
3	Subway	▲1	+16.1%
4	Shell	-	+15.8%
5	Dollar Tree	▲1	+14.7%
6	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲1	+8.5%
7	Circle K	-	+5.4%
8	Dollar General	-	+3.3%
9	Sonic Drive-In	▲1	+3.2%
10	McDonald's	-	+2.2%
11	MAPCO	-	+1.9%
12	Arby's	▲1	-0.4%
13	CVS Pharmacy	▼2	-1.1%
14	Foodland	-	-1.8%
15	Walgreens	-	-2.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,014 tracked store locations in Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 84 of the 1,014 stores (8%); 694 of the 783 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked stores here are in grocery & convenience, against 6% across Alabama.